Robots with a human touch

Haptic sensation (virtual touch) is the slowest sense to develop in virtual environments. It still is not possible for humans to feel accurately in virtual worlds.

An article in New Scientist described work to give ROBOTS the sense of touch through artificial skin embedded with optical sensors.

via Optical pressure sensors give robots the human touch

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